Suspect in Gloucester County murder of two children is ruled insane

A 21-year-old Gloucester County man has been found not guilty by reason of insanity in the strangulation deaths of his two younger half-sisters.

After receiving the results of a psychiatric examination of Marqueese Lee, Superior Court Judge Walter Marshall Jr. ruled that Lee did not know that what he was doing was wrong when he strangled the two girls in their West Deptford home on Nov. 11, 2007.

Six-year-old India Duncan and 10-year-old Aaliyah Scott were killed while their mother, Lucille Bevans, was at work and Lee was looking after them.

Bevans found the girls dead when she arrived home and was herself attacked by Lee but escaped.

Lee is to be transferred from the Gloucester County Jail to the Ann Klein Forensic Center, a state psychiatric hospital in Trenton.